I really wish I would have kept a notebook with all of the comments I have received over the years. Most assume all Arabs are Muslim. This is just one of the many assumptions people have based on their limited experiences with people of this background.

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These are a few of the other assumptions people have had about my husband not him as a person but him as an Arab man. I tried to pick the ones that I have heard the most often and were the most shocking to me. So You Have an Arab Husband.

You can insert any of those words at various times in our relationship. This was a comment regularly made by people who heard about our relationship in the beginning. It was interesting to me that the us vs them mentality always existed in this example. Never mind that most people lumped everyone who is of Arabic descent into the same category and culture. My husband has never abused me in any way.

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Are there men who are abusive and happen to be Arab? Are there men who are abuse and are of every other nationality in the world? Yes, really more than one person said this.

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There are a host of things that there were an expectation I would do, but the idea that somehow I was subjugated to serve him was a notion that blew me out of the water. Hijab is a choice that Muslim women make. It has little relationship to the man you marry unless that man is very religious and would like his wife to wear it.

On a more practical note, how can someone force you to wear a headscarf? Glue it to your head?

His mother, who divorced his father when he was 8, did not have the government support she needed to raise Campa-Najjar and his brother, he said. At 15, he worked as a janitor to help her pay the bills. Democratic congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar, center, who is running against U. Campa-Najjar said he is proud of his heritage but is American first. He has made clear that he has no personal connection to his grandfather, who was the member of Black September, a Palestinian terror group that orchestrated the attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich.

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His grandfather was killed by Israeli commandos 16 years before Campa-Najjar was born. One of Campa-Najjar's two campaign offices is in the city of El Cajon, near a business district with falafel shops, taco stands and signs in Arabic, English and Spanish, reflecting the district's changing demographics as immigrants and refugees have settled there.

Democratic congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar speaks during an interview Wednesday in San Diego The office is in a dilapidated home with yellow tape around the front porch. A paper sign under Campa-Najjar's portrait on a red, white and blue poster told visitors to knock on the back door. It remains to be seen whether the Democratic Party will pump money into a race they had believed less winnable than other districts with vulnerable Republican incumbents.

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President Donald Trump won Hunter's district by 15 points while losing statewide by more than 4 million votes in A Campa-Najjar victory would be an upset even with the allegations against Hunter, 41, and his wife Margaret.

The Hunters pleaded not guilty Thursday. Hunter says his 'constituents are not easily misled' and he will fight the allegations the same way he fought as a Marine. Campa-Najjar said he feels 'saddened' that a combat veteran returned from the battlefield and lost his way, becoming the 'poster child of corruption' for Washington.